A Sketch of the Embankment
c. 1884/1886
Artist, American, 1834 - 1903
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 4.3 × 13.5 cm (1 11/16 × 5 5/16 in.)
sheet: 11 × 25.4 cm (4 5/16 × 10 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.8576
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Catalogue Raisonné
MacDonald 2012, no. 268, only state
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1931
Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.
1964
Old Master Prints from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, organized by the Smithsonian Travelling Exhibitions Service, toured to Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN; University of Utah, Salt Lake City; Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA; University of Southern California, Los Angeles; University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence; Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH; Dullin Gallery of Art, Knoxville, TN; Atlanta Art Association, GA; York Junior College Gallery, York, PA; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Hill School, Pottstown, PA; Milwaukee Art Center, WI; and Western Washington State College. Bellingham, WA, 1964-1966, no. 43.
Bibliography
1910
Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 260.
2012
MacDonald, Margaret F., Grischka Petri, Joanna Meacock.James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné. University of Glasgow on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 268, only state.
Inscriptions
on plate: (butterfly); lower left on the recto: Sketch on the Embankment; lower left on the verso: c (underlined) / N/-/- and 5/5/-; 9729
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q65021992